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Volume 90, Issue 1 Sioux Falls, S.D. Friday, Sept. 21, 2001
The Augustana
Augustana adds two
more theme houses
BY OLESCIA ANDERSON
MIRROR STAFF WRITER
Build, enhance, improve:
These are the building blocks
that make the Augustana corn-munity
thrive. The 2001 themes
for Augustana theme housing are
"Building lives on character,
knowledge and sevice,"
"enhance community through
spiritual gifts," and "improving
others, improving Augustana,
improving ourselves." Each one
of these themes helps improve
the campus in positive ways and
furthers the education process.
Theme housing is an active
way for students to get involved
in the campus community.
Augustana started the idea in
1999 with only one house. This
year Augie added two additional
houses.
"We have bought houses that
make sense to the closeness to our
residential community," Associ-ate
Dean of Students Tracy Rid-dle
said.
Five groups applied for the
three houses last year.
The Valhalla House started the
theme community and accom-modates
10 students. The two
new houses allow for a group of
four and a group of five students.
Each group that is interested in
theme housing needs to fill out an
application and must meet certain
qualifications. These include hav-ing
a 3.0 GPA and a clean residence
history. They also look to see if stu-dents
lived on or off campus in the
past. Along with the qualifications,
the application asks each group to
state a possible theme and how it
would help improve the Augustana
community.
"Building lives on character,
knowledge and service is our
theme that all 10 of us in the
house have decided on," senior
Kara Fuehrer said.
Her group chose this theme
because they wanted to represent
what they stood for and how they
Theme houses
continued on page 8
Special Insert Inside: Augustana reacts to
Pentagon and World Trade Center attacks
Center for Western Studies opens Fantle Building
BY JESSICA MATSON
MIRROR GUEST WRITER
After months of screeching con-struction
noises and anticipation,
the Augustana community can
finally see the progress of the
nearly complete Fantle Building,
which will house the Center for
Western Studies.
Executive Director Dr. Arthur
Huseboe said that since the Center's
inception in 1970, the collection has
grown to 400 pieces of art, valued
at a total of $1 million dollars,
40,000 books and thousands of
square feet of archives and artifacts.
The basement of the Mikkelsen
Library was no longer adequate.
The answer to Huseboe's space
problem came in the form of a phone
call from Sally Fantle, for whom the
new building will be named.
"Four years ago she called and
said, 'How would you like to have
a new building'?' Huseboe said.
"She thought it would be good to
have more room."
In addition to the now-function-al
passageway from the library to
the center, the interior of the build-ing
is taking shape as well.
What formerly occupied 9,000
square feet in the library basement
now utilizes 22,000 square feet in
two stories.
Moving everything from the old
building to the new one caused a
lot of stress to some of the staff of
the center. Office Coordinator Lisa
Hollaar has done her share of rear-ranging
and invites everyone to
come in and help the staff move.
Fantle is pleased with the
progress of the new building and
has only one space concern:
"Where will we park?"
Fantle provided the center with
a naming gift, meaning she donat-ed
$1.5 million. She also donated
money for the construction of the
Madsen Center.
Fantle's gift funded half of the
center's building costs. Donations
came from other friends of the col-lege
and the center, as well as local
Fantle Building
continued on page 8
Photo by Carrie DeRuyter
The newly constructed Fantle Building now houses the Center for Western Studies, which was
formerly located in the basement of the Mikkelson Library.
Koepsell receives promotion,
Rohde hired as new pastor
BY PETER SCHOLTZ
MIRROR STAFF WRITER
New personnel fill two positions
this year at Augustana. Loren
Koepsell, previously director of
budget and institutional research,
has taken over the addi-tional
responsibilities of
vice president for finance
and administration, while
Paul Rohde will assume
duties as the new campus
pastor in November.
"The biggest change
is I now have responsi-bility
for the campus
facilities," Koepsell said
of his new position.
Campus facilities include the
maintenance staff, which is
responsible for all of the building
and grounds, as well as house-keeping.
According to Koepsell,
these staffs now report to him.
"Anything you see around cam-pus
— good or bad — related to
grounds, I now have responsibility
for it," Koepsell said.
Koepsell will continue to over-see
financial operations and cen-tral
services and do institutional
research as director of budget and
institutional research. Asked why
he decided to seek his new posi-tion,
Koepsell said, "I didn't seek
it. My boss retired, and they asked
me if I would take it."
Koepsell has had many roles
since he came to Augustana 13
years ago. Prior to taking over as
director of budget and institution-al
research in 1999, Koepsell
served as director of academic
computing and as director of
information systems.
From 1986 to 1988, he taught
part-time at Augie, and continues to
teach in addition to his administra-tive
duties.
Paul Rohde, currently senior
pastor at Our Savior's Lutheran
Church in New Ulm,
Minn., will be
installed as campus
pastor in the Chapel
of Reconciliation on
November 11. "11/11
at 11:00 in the morn-ing,"
said Rohde.
"Very easy to remem-ber."
As pastor to the stu-dent
congregation,
Rohde's duties will include coor-dinating
and supporting the daily
worship in the chapel, working
with chapel staff and being present
for students.
"The worship I'll be serving is
daily," said Rohde about the dif-ference
between his future job and
New Faculty
continued on page 8
"I hope to help discern
and discover faith, and
how faith informs the life
decisions they're making
in college."
—Paul Rohde

Volume 90, Issue 1 Sioux Falls, S.D. Friday, Sept. 21, 2001
The Augustana
Augustana adds two
more theme houses
BY OLESCIA ANDERSON
MIRROR STAFF WRITER
Build, enhance, improve:
These are the building blocks
that make the Augustana corn-munity
thrive. The 2001 themes
for Augustana theme housing are
"Building lives on character,
knowledge and sevice,"
"enhance community through
spiritual gifts," and "improving
others, improving Augustana,
improving ourselves." Each one
of these themes helps improve
the campus in positive ways and
furthers the education process.
Theme housing is an active
way for students to get involved
in the campus community.
Augustana started the idea in
1999 with only one house. This
year Augie added two additional
houses.
"We have bought houses that
make sense to the closeness to our
residential community," Associ-ate
Dean of Students Tracy Rid-dle
said.
Five groups applied for the
three houses last year.
The Valhalla House started the
theme community and accom-modates
10 students. The two
new houses allow for a group of
four and a group of five students.
Each group that is interested in
theme housing needs to fill out an
application and must meet certain
qualifications. These include hav-ing
a 3.0 GPA and a clean residence
history. They also look to see if stu-dents
lived on or off campus in the
past. Along with the qualifications,
the application asks each group to
state a possible theme and how it
would help improve the Augustana
community.
"Building lives on character,
knowledge and service is our
theme that all 10 of us in the
house have decided on," senior
Kara Fuehrer said.
Her group chose this theme
because they wanted to represent
what they stood for and how they
Theme houses
continued on page 8
Special Insert Inside: Augustana reacts to
Pentagon and World Trade Center attacks
Center for Western Studies opens Fantle Building
BY JESSICA MATSON
MIRROR GUEST WRITER
After months of screeching con-struction
noises and anticipation,
the Augustana community can
finally see the progress of the
nearly complete Fantle Building,
which will house the Center for
Western Studies.
Executive Director Dr. Arthur
Huseboe said that since the Center's
inception in 1970, the collection has
grown to 400 pieces of art, valued
at a total of $1 million dollars,
40,000 books and thousands of
square feet of archives and artifacts.
The basement of the Mikkelsen
Library was no longer adequate.
The answer to Huseboe's space
problem came in the form of a phone
call from Sally Fantle, for whom the
new building will be named.
"Four years ago she called and
said, 'How would you like to have
a new building'?' Huseboe said.
"She thought it would be good to
have more room."
In addition to the now-function-al
passageway from the library to
the center, the interior of the build-ing
is taking shape as well.
What formerly occupied 9,000
square feet in the library basement
now utilizes 22,000 square feet in
two stories.
Moving everything from the old
building to the new one caused a
lot of stress to some of the staff of
the center. Office Coordinator Lisa
Hollaar has done her share of rear-ranging
and invites everyone to
come in and help the staff move.
Fantle is pleased with the
progress of the new building and
has only one space concern:
"Where will we park?"
Fantle provided the center with
a naming gift, meaning she donat-ed
$1.5 million. She also donated
money for the construction of the
Madsen Center.
Fantle's gift funded half of the
center's building costs. Donations
came from other friends of the col-lege
and the center, as well as local
Fantle Building
continued on page 8
Photo by Carrie DeRuyter
The newly constructed Fantle Building now houses the Center for Western Studies, which was
formerly located in the basement of the Mikkelson Library.
Koepsell receives promotion,
Rohde hired as new pastor
BY PETER SCHOLTZ
MIRROR STAFF WRITER
New personnel fill two positions
this year at Augustana. Loren
Koepsell, previously director of
budget and institutional research,
has taken over the addi-tional
responsibilities of
vice president for finance
and administration, while
Paul Rohde will assume
duties as the new campus
pastor in November.
"The biggest change
is I now have responsi-bility
for the campus
facilities," Koepsell said
of his new position.
Campus facilities include the
maintenance staff, which is
responsible for all of the building
and grounds, as well as house-keeping.
According to Koepsell,
these staffs now report to him.
"Anything you see around cam-pus
— good or bad — related to
grounds, I now have responsibility
for it," Koepsell said.
Koepsell will continue to over-see
financial operations and cen-tral
services and do institutional
research as director of budget and
institutional research. Asked why
he decided to seek his new posi-tion,
Koepsell said, "I didn't seek
it. My boss retired, and they asked
me if I would take it."
Koepsell has had many roles
since he came to Augustana 13
years ago. Prior to taking over as
director of budget and institution-al
research in 1999, Koepsell
served as director of academic
computing and as director of
information systems.
From 1986 to 1988, he taught
part-time at Augie, and continues to
teach in addition to his administra-tive
duties.
Paul Rohde, currently senior
pastor at Our Savior's Lutheran
Church in New Ulm,
Minn., will be
installed as campus
pastor in the Chapel
of Reconciliation on
November 11. "11/11
at 11:00 in the morn-ing,"
said Rohde.
"Very easy to remem-ber."
As pastor to the stu-dent
congregation,
Rohde's duties will include coor-dinating
and supporting the daily
worship in the chapel, working
with chapel staff and being present
for students.
"The worship I'll be serving is
daily," said Rohde about the dif-ference
between his future job and
New Faculty
continued on page 8
"I hope to help discern
and discover faith, and
how faith informs the life
decisions they're making
in college."
—Paul Rohde